More and more humanitarian and development players are turning their attention to mechanisms for financing projects that store, avoid or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The best-known mechanism is “carbon offsetting”, which involves offsetting one’s own greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing carbon credits on the voluntary carbon market. Given the various limits and constraints of this mechanism, other initiatives are developing, notably in the international solidarity sector.
With this in mind, several French NGOs decided to meet on the afternoon of Tuesday December 10, 2024, to :
- Bring coherence to the different initiatives
- Discuss some collective ideas
Resources had been made available and a questionnaire had been sent out in advance to better gauge the expectations and positioning of all concerned. The results of the survey can be found in the appendix.
NB: this workshop was not an exercise in common positioning (around carbon offsetting in particular) or an ethical debate around these mechanisms (even if, of course, it is possible to share ethical considerations during this workshop).
